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The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence and explore the predictors of undernutrition among children aged 5\u201317 months in Yerevan.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980013001171_abs2\" sec-type=\"general\"><jats:title>Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study was cross-sectional and employed a review of the ambulatory charts of children selected through a multistage cluster sampling. This phase was followed by a case\u2013control study. The cases were undernourished children identified during the record review and randomly matched with normally growing controls of the same age and gender from the same pool of records. Mothers of cases and controls participated in a telephone interview. The study used conditional logistic regression analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980013001171_abs3\" sec-type=\"general\"><jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>Yerevan, Armenia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980013001171_abs4\" sec-type=\"subjects\"><jats:title>Subjects<\/jats:title><jats:p>Children aged 5\u201317 months residing in Yerevan, Armenia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980013001171_abs5\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Review of 570 ambulatory charts suggested the prevalence of stunting, underweight and wasting among 5\u201317-month-old children in Yerevan to be 17\u00b79 %, 7\u00b73 % and 3\u00b71 %, respectively. The case\u2013control study of eighty-nine matched pairs identified four significant predictors of child undernutrition: family's socio-economic status score (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7030), child's length at birth (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7027), duration of predominant breast-feeding (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7046) and food diversity score (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0\u00b7039).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980013001171_abs6\" sec-type=\"conclusion\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The factors determining growth patterns of children in Yerevan are mostly behavioral and environmental, hence modifiable. Reducing poverty and inequalities in food availability, promoting breast-feeding and adequate complementary feeding, and ensuring optimal care before, during and after pregnancy are likely to help reduce child undernutrition in Yerevan, Armenia and societies with similar public health concerns.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1368980013001171","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,14]],"date-time":"2013-05-14T09:54:57Z","timestamp":1368525297000},"page":"1046-1053","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Estimated prevalence and predictors of undernutrition among children aged 5\u201317 months in Yerevan, Armenia"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Lilit","family":"Hovhannisyan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anahit","family":"Demirchyan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Varduhi","family":"Petrosyan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref39","volume-title":"Order N 860A, 17.06.2008","year":"2008"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref56","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/19.1.101"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-1-4757-4242-8_7"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref40","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4135\/9781483348964"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"464S","DOI":"10.1093\/ajcn\/66.2.464S","article-title":"Synergism of nutrition, infection, and immunity: an overview","volume":"66","author":"Scrimshaw","year":"1997","journal-title":"Am J Clin Nutr"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0277-9536(02)00555-5"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/dyh202"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref51","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159\/000053080"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(07)61690-0"},{"key":"S1368980013001171_ref31","volume-title":"Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry. 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